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Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1733–1794, Swiss, A View of the Fire in Covent Garden, 1769
- Title:
A View of the Fire in Covent Garden
- Date:
- 1769
- Medium:
- Etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 11/16 × 13 1/8 inches (24.6 × 33.3 cm), Image: 8 15/16 × 13 1/8 inches (22.7 × 33.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower right: "10/6"
Lettered in black ink, within image, lower left: "S H Grimm fec. 1769"; lower center: "A View of the Fire in Covent Garden the 20 of March 1769, done by a Neighbour."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1990.8
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- arches | architectural subject | buildings | carriages | carts | chaos | coats | crowd | fear | fire | firefighters | firehoses | flames | historical subject | horses (animals) | ladder | men | sand | sandbags | smoke | tricornes | wagons
- Associated Places:
- Covent Garden | England | Greater London | London | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3109
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